Day -2

I wanted to go jogging today but I had some severe DOMS-Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (plus I'm just pure laziness). I think they were not as delayed as they were supposed to be which means I did "something wrong." I went too "hardcore" yesterday. Gosh it was yesterday. I went to bed at 5:30am last night--well this morning and had to get up at 7a for a meeting at 8a before my 9a class.

I had a quiz today and did okay: 5/6: That is why I was up so late. . . then I got home around 230p and was famished. I ate kimchijjiggae with rice around 3p.

Then I told myself how productive I was going to be by studying and then eventually jogging to main campus (about 5 minute drive) to print out something I needed for tomorrow.

I went to "study" lying down on the futon and then I just woke up (around 7:30p). Haha.

Maybe I'll try it tomorrow?

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My Vagina Monologue:

Inspired by what I learned in class today:

Learned some quite interesting things today (all figures posted in this section are from my lecture today on "Female Reproduction System" given by Dr. Richard at the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University):

(1.) the breast is made of a fat pad and glands (mammary). The majority is fat pad and this determines breast size. Therefore, those with larger breasts do not necessarily have a greater ability to produce milk because the fat does not produce the milk. The mammary glands produce milk.

2.) the areola is dark from sebaceous (oil) glands. The dark color helps the baby once out of the womb to gravitate towards its first food source. Its eyes probably do not function as well since it had been in the dark womb for some time and did not have to use its eyes.

3.) Fibrocystic disease is NOT breast cancer. It is the benign (tumor has not moved to other body areas) form.)

4.) If you think you have seen a vagina--you probably have not. Vagina is short for vaginal canal. Therefore, it is a canal, and what you thought you saw--the external genitalia--is actually called the vulva or pudendum (perhaps where a slang word gets its origin...?)



All that you see here in the above figure is the pudendum or vulva--NOT the vagina

5.) the mons pubis is in men and women and cushions the impact of pelvic bones during intercourse

6.) clitoris is the Greek word for "key" so what do you know and is also surrounded by a prepuce, hood, or "foreskin" as in the phallus of men

7.) The hymen is mucous membrane surrounding the vaginal orifice that has no real developmental purpose but probably keeps moisture in and other things out. It has unfortunately developed a social purpose of detecting whether or not a female has had her first intercourse (the bleeding during the first intercourse). Some women have their hymen break at first intercourse and some do NOT.



The figure above shows the hymen. The parous introitus is what the hymen looks like after first intercourse so I guess an expert (gynecologist--gynec/o=female & logist= expert in the study of) can tell by the look of it.

8.) The female bladder cannot hold as much urine as the males and therefore it is common for females to have to urinate more often. Why? Because they have a UTERUS freakin on top of it that does not let the bladder expand to its "full potential" to store urine. It gets a lot worse when she is pregnant and the uterus is getting bigger and bigger and bigger...



The above figure is the internal female anatomy. To note is the position of the uterus atop the urinary bladder that does not allow for the fullest expansion of the bladder.

9.) There is NO shortcut for the eggs to get to the uterus. The eggs must travel through the fallopian tube from the ovary into the uterus.



The above picture shows the simplified internal anatomy of the female. To note are the "other tubes" "leading" to the uterus from the ovary. This is NOT the shortcut to the uterus an egg can take. They are ligaments that hold the ovary in place. Seen in this figure also is the vagina/vaginal canal.

10.) Probably the most interesting: The inside front of the vaginal canal is the location of the paraurethral glands also known as the Grafenberg-Spot = "G-Spot." So what do you know...It is a gland that produces moisture or lubrication but many have said it conveys a pleasure signal for some females. It is comparable to the prostate gland in males.



The figure above was in my lecture today to show where the Grafenberg-Spot was located. Probably to the interest of the men in the class. I did not know how edit pictures on my Macbook and put arrows in to point to things so a description of where we're going will have to suffice...If you recall from the previous figure of the female internal anatomy that had this figure but more expanded to show other parts, you will have to orient yourself to the vaginal canal that leads to the uterus--the thick "C" shaped thing in this midsaggital (sliced right in half)-cut figure. Going up the vaginal canal you will see to your left a silvery colored thing (not the first one covered by a black line but the second one). Yes, that is the Grafenberg-Spot. In the male, the prostate would be located in the "triangular area" in this figure, between the opening of the vaginal canal and the rectum (the opening all the way on the right). How is an enlarged prostate detected? "By sticking your finger up the rectum." So my professor hypothesizes this may be why it is pleasurable to poo. Is the prostate gland the male version of the G-spot--is what he was non-rhetorically asking.

There were a few more things I wanted to add but I think that's enough for today. I had fun reviewing my lecture material for my exam in two weeks!